The blog is about my paintings of family life completed over the last forty years. I have recently set up a gallery in our house to display the work and the blog is also a record of my attempts to manage and pubisise the business

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Cultural Mix

As I was showing my painting 'Against The Light' to a group of visitors the other week, I reflected on how many cultural references had influenced the work.
As is my habit when doing a tour, I usually also show this evidence alongside the picture. On this occasion we looked at the work of Daumier (the title of my painting is one of his phrases), Javanese shadow puppets and a 1950s comic. A mash-up of cultural references if every there was one.
You can see the painting on the MEDIA page on my website.